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Which prompted Ian Bond of the Centre for European Reform to offer the government this post-Trump Brexit advice: "The UK should focus on leaving the EU with the minimum damage to its relations with its European partners. That argues for minimising its demands and trying to achieve a quick agreement … If the UK is not to take a big economic hit, it needs to stay inside the single market. It should not make cutting EU migration its top priority, and try to salvage what it can of its market access."

The deputy director of the Centre for European Reform, Simon Tilford said: "You clearly see a scenario where instead of moderating Trump, the House and the Senate fall behind him, and there the implications for Europe could be pretty serious."

»Enten vil vi se en fuldstændig genforhandling af TTIP, eller også vil den være død og begravet,« siger Rem Korteweg, ekspert i det transatlantiske forhold hos Centre for European Reform i London.

It’s not just tanks. The EU’s 28 countries also maintain 12 kinds of tanker aircraft and 19 kinds of fighting aircraft, according to Sophia Besch at the Centre for European Reform. In Eastern Europe, many spare parts are still supplied by Russia. Some countries that do spend more, like Greece, fritter defence budgets away on a vast headcount and military pensions, rather than technology.  When states do procure hardware, they are overwhelmingly protectionist, coddling their own industries at the cost of effectiveness. As Ms Besch puts it, the whole system is full of “duplication and redundancy”.

Ian Bond, foreign policy director at the Centre for European Reform, slammed Trump's comments on foreign policy as "incoherent and sometimes frightening". Mr Bond said: "The choice of a US President affects not just the people of America, but the rest of the world."  

 
Volgens Rem Korteweg van het Centre for European Reform in Londen maakt Trumps 'transactionele mentaliteit' het goed denkbaar dat Trump deals gaat sluiten met 'andere stevige mannen'. Dat speelt leiders als Poetin, Erdogan en Assad in de kaart. 'Dan komen we helemaal terug in een negentiende-eeuws model van invloedssferen, waarin instellingen en multilaterale organisaties geen rol spelen.'
 

In a podcast released yesterday, researchers at the Centre for European Reform said Clinton would likely follow Obama in favoring regional deals rather than a bilateral pact with the UK. They said US politicians are worried Brexit will distract the UK and EU from other matters such as fighting terrorism, and make it harder for US busineses and investors to access the region.